(Rock News Desk) Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist Flea admits his thoughts about splitting the band when guitarist John Frusciante refused to return are nothing new.

He reveals he's felt it was the end of the road many times before – and it's his default mood when things go wrong.

The band regrouped in 2009 after a two-year hiatus, at which point their axeman told them he'd finished with them. "I've considered pulling the plug a million times – that's nothing new for me," Flea tells Guitar World. "Things get to be a bummer and I start going, 'This is kind of a drag.'

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